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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 742 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 784,246 ratings — published 2003
The House on Mango Street (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.67 — 252,121 ratings — published 1984
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.79 — 158,240 ratings — published 1906
The Great Believers (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.29 — 183,606 ratings — published 2018
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,494,460 ratings — published 2011
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 174 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,879,318 ratings — published 2003
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.63 — 13,383 ratings — published 2007
Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.05 — 107,937 ratings — published 1940
Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 815,899 ratings — published 2016
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,245 ratings — published 1971
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 128 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,364 ratings — published 1991
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,246,928 ratings — published 2018
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by (shelved 126 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.96 — 391,993 ratings — published 2000
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,763 ratings — published 1996
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,714 ratings — published 1991
Chicago: City on the Make (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,164 ratings — published 1951
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,150 ratings — published 2016
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,557 ratings — published 2018
City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,450 ratings — published 2012
The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,488 ratings — published 2012
Last Summer on State Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,840 ratings — published 2022
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 88 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,167,434 ratings — published 2013
Sister Carrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.78 — 42,377 ratings — published 1900
Hello Beautiful (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 87 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.12 — 588,366 ratings — published 2023
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,308 ratings — published 1959
The Coast of Chicago: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,768 ratings — published 1990
The Adventures of Augie March (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.83 — 19,200 ratings — published 1953
An American Summer (Audio CD)
by (shelved 85 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.31 — 5,076 ratings — published 2019
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,657,965 ratings — published 2012
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.48 — 122,619 ratings — published 2010
Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)
by (shelved 82 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.97 — 218,798 ratings — published 2001
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,272 ratings — published 2018
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.07 — 26,064 ratings — published 2008
Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.62 — 10,804 ratings — published 2021
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.69 — 415,945 ratings — published 2010
Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
by (shelved 69 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.13 — 184,325 ratings — published 2001
Division Street: America (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.17 — 712 ratings — published 1966
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys)
by (shelved 68 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,301 ratings — published 2004
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.00 — 87,300 ratings — published 2017
Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
by (shelved 66 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.26 — 166,310 ratings — published 2002
American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.16 — 963 ratings — published 2000
The Man with the Golden Arm (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,353 ratings — published 1949
Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.90 — 19,904 ratings — published 1982
The Shining Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.54 — 55,396 ratings — published 2013
The Most Fun We Ever Had (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.89 — 171,001 ratings — published 2019
Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11)
by (shelved 60 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.44 — 114,953 ratings — published 2009
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.25 — 27,938 ratings — published 2017
The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.64 — 5,021 ratings — published 2010
Chicago: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as chicago)
avg rating 3.81 — 450 ratings — published 2009
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
by (shelved 59 times as chicago)
avg rating 4.43 — 120,088 ratings — published 2008
“...a city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.”
― Chicago: City on the Make
― Chicago: City on the Make
“I heard Mr. Ingersoll many years ago in Chicago. The hall seated 5,000 people; every inch of standing-room was also occupied; aisles and platform crowded to overflowing. He held that vast audience for three hours so completely entranced that when he left the platform no one moved, until suddenly, with loud cheers and applause, they recalled him. He returned smiling and said: 'I'm glad you called me back, as I have something more to say. Can you stand another half-hour?' 'Yes: an hour, two hours, all night,' was shouted from various parts of the house; and he talked on until midnight, with unabated vigor, to the delight of his audience. This was the greatest triumph of oratory I had ever witnessed. It was the first time he delivered his matchless speech, 'The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child'.
I have heard the greatest orators of this century in England and America; O'Connell in his palmiest days, on the Home Rule question; Gladstone and John Bright in the House of Commons; Spurgeon, James and Stopford Brooke, in their respective pulpits; our own Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, and Webster and Clay, on great occasions; the stirring eloquence of our anti-slavery orators, both in Congress and on the platform, but none of them ever equalled Robert Ingersoll in his highest flights.
{Stanton's comments at the great Robert Ingersoll's funeral}”
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I have heard the greatest orators of this century in England and America; O'Connell in his palmiest days, on the Home Rule question; Gladstone and John Bright in the House of Commons; Spurgeon, James and Stopford Brooke, in their respective pulpits; our own Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, and Webster and Clay, on great occasions; the stirring eloquence of our anti-slavery orators, both in Congress and on the platform, but none of them ever equalled Robert Ingersoll in his highest flights.
{Stanton's comments at the great Robert Ingersoll's funeral}”
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